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Hijabe fitna parvar ab utha leti to achchha tha khud apne husn ko parda bana leti to achchha tha (Better, if you could pull down the hijab of shyness, now; better instead, if you could make your boldness a veil)–… Continue Reading →
Suhasini Raj, Emily Schmall The case, involving rapes at a shelter for homeless girls, signals a partial reckoning with the government’s responsibility in an epidemic of sexual violence. Credit…Sajjad Hussain/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Jan. 28, 2022 NEW DELHI —… Continue Reading →
Six students have continued to be marked absent since December 31 after being denied entry into their classrooms at the Government Women’s pre-university college in Udupi, Karnataka for their insistence on wearing a hijab. College principal Rudra Gowda has said the students can wear… Continue Reading →
Mira T. Sundara RajanSEPTEMBER 18, 2021 14:17 IST A family photo taken in 1917 with Shakuntala and Chellamma seated left to right. Standing left to right are Thangammal, Ramu and Vijayaraghavan (friends) and Bharati. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Archives… Continue Reading →
Bethan McKernan Nizar Banat knew he was going to die. As he grew bolder calling out corrupt members of Fatah, the party which controls the Palestinian Authority, the death threats mounted. In May, his home near Hebron was attacked by… Continue Reading →
Animesh Bisoee One of the conveners of Shahid Father Stan Swamy Nyay Morcha said the awareness campaign will start on September 1 and continue till October 8 Members of trade unions, non-BJP parties and civil society organisations who have come… Continue Reading →
Pradeep Bahuguna Sunderlal Bahuguna’s lifelong campaign was against deforestation in the Himalaya. Photo: Ashish Kothari Sunderlal Bahuguna insisted on conserving the entire Himalayan landscape. Photo: Ashish Kothari In 1978 and 1979, local people led by Sunderlal Bahuguna did not allow trees to… Continue Reading →
by- Dylan Scott, Pamposh Raina, Makepeace Sitlhou NEW DELHI, India — Shiv Charan Lal Gupta, the medical director of Batra Hospital in New Delhi, has seen the devastation that follows an earthquake: dead bodies strewn about, patients maimed and in… Continue Reading →
Jul 30th 2021 Indians have a particular love affair with WhatsApp. With roughly 400m active users, India is the messaging app’s biggest market BY NIKITA LALWANI One spring day in 2018 the police chief of an agricultural district in southern… Continue Reading →
– The Morning Context. Akshay Deshmane In early April this year, as most Indians were grappling with the second wave of COVID- 19, the environment ministry quietly announced on its website that it intends to amend the Indian Forest Act, 1927 by… Continue Reading →